Saturday, June 27, 2015

Ears, Balloon popping, and Pie

6/20/15

With a title like that I know I have you full and
undivided attention! :)

Let’s start with the
ears. Well this week I went to theotorrinolaringologista. Try
saying that five times fast!!! It actually means...ear doctor....yeah I don’t
think we have a super fancy word for them in English but maybe I just forgot
:P I went there because I haven’t been
able to hear very well out of my ear for a little while. We went and it turns
out that I had an ear infection. Now I am on antibiotics, but with this next
week all should return to normal :)

I got my hair cut :) I
will be talking to Chase today so I didn’t include a picture. Now I even look like a Brazilian :) Even if
it is just for the fact that it is like 55 degrees outside and I am all bundled
up with a scarf, jacket, and gloves. I
am so going to die in the snow of Utah!!!

Balloon popping!!! We
had a really cool ward activity that the ward mission leader and we put on. We
started off the activity talking/singing because I have been given much
and then we went and started a little dynamic learning by making a circle. We gave one of the other missionaries a
tennis ball and what you had to do is throw the tennis ball to the assigned
person. Then that person would throw it
to their assigned partner and so on until it got back to the first person. As people got better at catching and then
throwing it to their assigned partners we started adding tennis balls into the circle
and then it got difficult. What we wanted them to see was you have to focus on
receiving and then passing along what you received, while never taking your
eyes off the ball. If you got distracted
you would drop the ball. Then we talked about the work as missionaries. I
shared the story that mom sent to me in an email about how our great
grandparents received lessons from the missionaries while in Oklahoma and then I
told them that is why I was there. Because a member decided to open his mouth
and share what the missionaries had one time shared with someone in his family.
It was cool because we talked about how it doesn’t matter if you are a recent
convert or were born into a sealed family, at some point in time someone decided
to share with your family what made them happy and so extremely blessed. So we
made a challenge. We told them that we were going to mark with them and then go
to their houses with plates of brownies and eat with them and then take some to
their neighbors so that we can help the other people who so desperately need
the gospel in their lives :) It was a success :) we have 3 companionships in
the ward and so we got everyone marked down for a day :)

That is where we get
into pie!! Yesterday was the first day doing the neighborhood visits with the
members! Elder Jopia and I went to our ward mission leader’s house and we
brought a pie with us :) Then we went
around and started talking with his neighbors. The first door.....I think the
guy thought we were trying to sell him drugs or something like that because he
said he didn’t want the pie or the Book of Mormon...but everyone else after
that accepted us and now we have a couple new families to visit :) That is
going to be really cool because we need to teach families!!! I mean everyone
needs the gospel but there is nothing as cool as seeing a whole family baptized
and know that in a year they will be able to be sealed together for time and
all eternity!

We also had a cool
experience while tracting this week. We were trying to visit some of our
investigators and everyone was not at home...so as the backup plan we had chosen
to stay on the same street and do some contacts. We were going without much
success until we reached this old wooden house.
We clapped 3 times before a women opened the door and so we started
talking to her about the who we were and about why we were there. She said she had already seen the missionaries
before and then she said that we had come at just the right time and so we told
her where the church was and invited her to come. She told us she would go and then said that
she was passing though some rough times and that it seemed as though when she
was talking to us she felt a feeling of peace! It was awesome and both Jopia and I bore our
testimonies about how much God wanted to help her and that was why we were there.
I love these types of experiences because you can really see Gods hand in the
work. I know that God does truly prepare people for us to teach, because he
loves them and wants them to come unto him and be healed. I know this gospel is
true and I know that Christ lives, this is his church!!

LOOVVVEEEE,

Elder Pachner II

(Remember Chase, dad is
the first, I am the second, and you will be the third. The first was awesome, the second was more or
less and the third will be the best...until the fourth comes ;P